'1000 Bornes': from Edmond Dujardin's basement to international success

The card game “1000 Bornes” is a perennial toy department
bestseller in France, with more than 10 million sets having been sold.
The story began in a basement in Arcachon.

Arthur Dujardin, whose pen name was Edmond Dujardin, was born and raised between the wars in Lille. He was a musician and prolific inventor who began trading as a printer then as an author of highway code books and driving school teaching materials. In the 1940s, he began to suffer from acute asthma and travelled to Arcachon to take in the town’s renowned quality sea air. Dujardin elected to stay and, in 1947, moved into number 63, Boulevard de la Plage.

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|| SECOND PART OF A TWIN FEATURE PUBLISHED WITH INVISIBLE PARIS! || In the closing paragraph of the previous post , Invisible Bordeaux ...

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the closing paragraph of the previous post, Invisible Bordeaux was
poised to enter Bordeaux via the inland route from Le Bouscat as
followed over the years by thousands of Way of Saint James pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela
in north-western Spain: the “el Camino de Santiago” pilgrimage known in France as “les Chemins de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle”.

The 8.4-km route through the city itself, which has been added to the Invisible Bordeaux GoogleMap, leads out of Le Bouscat along Avenue de Tivoli. A small square marks the official arrival in Bordeaux... and that may just be a scallop-shaped sculpted feature there to greet the pilgrims!

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|| PART OF A TWIN FEATURE PUBLISHED WITH INVISIBLE PARIS! || For more than a thousand years, pilgrims have followed routes from differ...

For more than a thousand years, pilgrims have followed routes from different parts of Europe to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in north-western Spain, where it is believed that the remains of the apostle Saint James are buried. The pilgrimage is what the Spaniards know as “el Camino de Santiago”, the French as “les Chemins de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle”, and what English-speakers call “the Way of Saint James”.

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Bordeaux trams have become such an integral part of the landscape in the city that they even feature on postcards. The 21st-century transp...

The VAL light railway network that never happened

Bordeaux trams have become such an integral part of the landscape in the city that they even feature on postcards. The 21st-century transport infrastructure could have been very different though because, for many years, the plan was to build a light railway network which would have looked something like the artist’s impression pictured left.

Trams in Bordeaux are nothing new. Horse-drawn trams were introduced in 1880, followed 20 years later by the city’s first electrically-powered trams. The network went from strength to strength over the following decades, and by 1938 160,000 people were travelling daily on the 38 different lines, which covered a cumulative distance of 200 kilometres – many lines extended beyond the city itself to suburbs such as Créon, Cestas and Saint-Médard-en-Jalles.